IAWM - International Association of Women's Museums
IAWM

“There has to be a women’s museum in every country of this world.”

Shirin Ebadi

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (2003) and official godmother of IAWM

Welcome to the International Association of Women’s Museums (IAWM). We are thrilled to share with you our organization and members, which seek to provide women’s museums – and those who work with them – a place to share and collaborate. Learn about our history, our goals, and our members.

Are you a women’s museum or just want to know more?

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IAWM 2025 Conference & AGM

Join us in Merano, Italy for this years’ conference and AGM. Find out more on our conference website. 

IAWM Statement on Oppression in Iran

IAWM’s stands with our members on the incarceration of Nasrin Sotoudeh and others fighting oppression in Iran. Read the full statement here.

IAWM Statement Against Violence Against Women

The IAWM stands strong against violence against women. Read our statement in honour of 25 November here.

 

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We welcome our new member: Women’s TraCEs

Mar 31, 2021

In 2021, Museum of Recent History Celje in Slovenia launched the project Women's TraCEs, in which we explore the stories of women from Celje in the 20th century, the role of women in modern society and various topics related to women. With different approaches, we...

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A Women’s Museum is Love

Mar 30, 2021

Women’s Museum in Albania MiG  (Muzeu i Grave) Every museum has a lot of emotion inside, but when you build it from the ground up, it brings a lot more than just that – it brings lots, and lots of love. The museum I built from the ground up, is the museum of the...

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THE FIRST ROOM. birth culture meets architecture

Mar 24, 2021

On 25th and 26th March the frauenmuseum hittisau invites to the online conference THE FIRST ROOM. More information in German: Die interdisziplinäre Online-Tagung durchleuchtet das Thema „Raum & Geburt“ sowie regenerative Prozesse, die in Zusammenhang mit dem...

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A Woman’s Museum For Americas No. 1 Suffragette

Mar 16, 2021

Failure is impossible These words addressed to the assembled women at her last women' s suffrage convention in 1906, became the motto of her fellow-combatants. Although Anthony sensed that she would not live to see women go to the polls in her lifetime, she was...

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